Later this afternoon senators will also vote on fda commissioner nominee, steven hahn. Now to live coverage. U. S. Senate here on cspan2. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. God of grace and glory, on your people, shower your blessings. Be for us a shield and sure defense. Lord, as we live in this tangled world, give us the wisdom to keep our eyes on you. Bless our senators. Crown their deliberations with your wisdom, so that your purposes will prevail. Quicken in our lawmakers noble impulses, as you sanctify their efforts with your mercy and might. Be merciful to us, forgive our faults and remember that we are but dust, like a wind that blows by and is gone. Lord, keep us from stumbling or slipping. We pray in your gracious name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of amer
Live on cspan network. On life at cspan. Org. Order on the free see cspan2 radio app. Seneca oil, back a friend of the cspan2 network. His head another falcon which is what. Which is what we callru the first nonpartisan non profit, new site devoted entirely to covering the issues of the broken democracy and all the different efforts out there to troy and make democracy work better. We look at the impeachment process today, where are we. Pit bulls we look at it today we are the beginning of another week where i guess is the week six as we all know, the house so the ground rules last week on that partyline vote. And so now we have another week of packed with scheduled depositions in several of the witnesses we sayve will not show up and probably the most important thing thats going to happen this week is the house tells the committee is going to release the transcripts of monday of the depositions that have been taken sopt far. Those of the headlines. The tickling of the sunday program,
Billion. Good morning, everybody. Happy monday. This is bloomberg daybreak europe. Risk have a look at the radar. The tax story is very much epicenter of things for markets in the Asian Session and the United States on friday and of course, in the United States later on today. Lets have a look at the msci asiapacific, up by. 8 right now. The markets are factoring in something more positive on a tax run. The republicans agreeing to their version of the tax plan that this is the penultimate trading week of 2017, reflecting what we saw on friday on wall street. I wanted to highlight what is happening in india. Earlierhe sensex down on in todays session. It looks as if, he has come out victorious. We saw the sensex down by 2. 6 , up by. 7 in the indian session. By. 2 . Further to go on the tax bump story. We hit records on friday. Could we see further gains in todays session in the middle of week . A vote in the house and senate, and all of this to do with reduced rates of Corporation Tax
A close contest with seumas exwife sana limey zuma also coming up. Turkey has ordered the release of german journalist and michel tulu from prison but says she wont be allowed to leave the country. In. A very warm welcome on layla iraq in berlin joined by my colleague christine moon because in south africa the countrys ruling a. N. C. Has elected the countrys Deputy President cyril round posing as its next leader he will take over from jacob zuma were watching here live pictures of his supporters in the jubilation voting took place overnight and it was a tight race between the two front runners ramp. Roser and former minister and costars are meanies whom are present rumors exwife but in the end there was ram poser who won it was it is widely regarded as a Pivotal Moment for the country the winner will be well placed to become south africas next president in the twenty nine thousand general election all right and of course here with me to explore what this all means was this a foregone
This is the news hour live from london coming up. Theres again. A u. N. Security Council Resolution rejecting any change to the status of jerusalem is a vetoed by the u. S. Cyril ramaphosa elected to lead south africas ruling a. N. C. And likely to be the countrys next president. A passenger train has crashed off a bridge onto a major road in the western u. S. State of washington several people have been killed. And im santa how much with the sport our top story today the ashes down under as australia at. The famous cricket contest. The United States has used its veto on the United Nations Security Council to block a resolution critical of its decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel resolution was drafted by egypt. In the much lower court audio of the draft resolution stresses in its operational paragraphs that any attempt at changing or altering the character status or demographic composition of the holy city of jerusalem. And must be rescinded we have to object to su